From: Roland Häder <roland@mxchange.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:23:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Spiders should not be allowed, sometimes, to follow redirects via HTML (e.g. in banners)
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Spiders should not be allowed, sometimes, to follow redirects via HTML (e.g. in banners)
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diff --git a/inc/functions.php b/inc/functions.php
index 0dbe4ae0d2..aec4292947 100644
--- a/inc/functions.php
+++ b/inc/functions.php
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ function makeTime ($hours, $minutes, $seconds, $stamp) {
 }
 
 // Redirects to an URL and if neccessarry extends it with own base URL
-function redirectToUrl ($URL) {
+function redirectToUrl ($URL, $allowSpider = true) {
 	// Compile out codes
 	eval('$URL = "' . compileRawCode(encodeUrl($URL)) . '";');
 
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ function redirectToUrl ($URL) {
 	//* DEBUG: */ die($URL);
 
 	// Simple probe for bots/spiders from search engines
-	if (isSpider()) {
+	if ((isSpider()) && ($allowSpider === true)) {
 		// Secure the URL against bad things such als HTML insertions and so on...
 		$URL = secureString($URL);